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...RAPHAEL SOYER by Lloyd Goodrich. 349 pages. Abrams. $42.50. This is the first full-scale book about New York's painter laureate of the lonely crowd, Raphael Soyer (twin brother of Moses Soyer, another figurative artist). Raphael was an honest and compassionate observer of human gesture. But the reproductions of his paintings here are often given the kind of gala centerfold treatment that might embarrass Michelangelo. Moreover, Lloyd Goodrich's prose commentary unfurls like a bolt of wet wool...
...gather that the three men, including Raphael, Ambassador to France from the Republic of Miranda, make a profit on the sly by smuggling cocaine across French customs in the diplomatic pouch. Raphael is also engaged in illicit though indifferent, lovemaking with his friend Francois's blond wife. Supposed terrorists pursue Raphael, who disposes of them as callously as he does the affairs of his state. Later all three couples are released from imprisonment on a drug trafficking charge by a discreet phone call from the French secretary, whom Raphael quickly invites to visit his country in return for the favor...
True Jews. Leiber cited as evidence of Pius XII's wartime ministrations to Jews a society called The Good Works of St. Raphael, which supposedly aided thousands of Italian Jews to emigrate to Brazil before the Black Sabbath in October 1943, when the Gestapo entered the Roman ghetto. But Waagenaar quotes the wartime head of the society, Father Anton Weber, as explaining that his group "was concerned only with baptized Jews of non-Italian nationality, not with true Jews...
...Finally, Raphael (Ralph) Cahaly, founder of Cahaly's Harvard Square market and one of the area's most popular merchants, died of cancer on February 15. A native of Damascus, Syria, Cahaly came to this country more than 40 years ago and opened a small variety store with three of his brothers on the corner of Boylston and Mt. Auburn Streets. The store changed locations twice before finally coming to rest at its present address of 47 Mt. Auburn St. Cahaly's son John now manages the store. As a final tribute, Cahaly's funeral procession drove down Mt. Auburn...
Twelve juniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard. Those elected are: Vincent J. Cheng of Currier House and Ontario. Can.: Raphael M. Cohen of Quincy House and Quebec. Can; Roger A. Freedman of Adams House and Los Angeles. Cal: Rohn S. Friedman of Dunster House and St. Louis Park. Minn: John P. Gibbons of Lowell House and Marblehead: Patrick J. Glynn III of Winthrop House and Chicago, III.: Jeffrey C. Herrmann of Quincy House and Clark's Summit, Pa.: Steven A. Kraft of Winthrop House and Princeton. N.J.: Rowell S. Melnick of Lowell House...